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title: As soon as Jack had read this he seized the trumpet and blew a shril… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as Jack had read this he seized the trumpet and blew a shrill blast, which made the gates fly open and the very castle itself tremble. Who acts: Jack, shrill blast, gates, castle. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 66

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As soon as Jack had read this he seized the trumpet and blew a shrill blast, which made the gates fly open and the very castle itself tremble.

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**Who acts:** Jack, shrill blast, gates, castle · **What happens:** read, seize, blow, make, fly, tremble · **To what, where:** this, trumpet, shrill blast

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, shrill blast, gates, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:54:66
# text = As soon as Jack had read this he seized the trumpet and blew a shrill blast, which made the gates fly open and the very castle itself tremble.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	tremble	tremble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past · perfect | Jack | this |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Jack | the trumpet |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | past | Jack *not said here* | a shrill blast |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | a shrill blast |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | present | the gates |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tremble** | present | the castle  trumpet |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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